Outside of work, I enjoy outdoor adventures, scuba diving, running, and cross-country skiing.
I am also an avid reader with a soft spot for classic science fiction and Karel Capek.
Some of my favorite films have been made by Alexander Payne, Milos Forman, and Wes Anderson.

Research

My primary research area is distributed network applications, with a focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-physical systems, and multi-media network services.
My goal is to design and develop better programming abstractions for distributed and reliable IoT applications that are deployable across a heterogeneous network of devices.
I am specificially interested in exploring the "computation follows data" approach to IoT application design, where the application gets deployed close to the origin of the data, as opposed to the more traditional "data follows computation" model leveraged by most existing cloud-based IoT services.